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InfoSpace and Intel To Collaborate On Web Appliances

InfoSpace to provide Intel with industry leading consumer and commerce services on Intel's new Web appliances

REDMOND, WA. — January 5, 2000 — InfoSpace (NASDAQ:INSP), a leading provider of infrastructure services to Web sites, merchants and wireless devices, today announced that it has teamed with Intel to help drive the emerging Web appliance market. InfoSpace will provide Intel with infrastructure services for Intel's new Web appliances available through service providers in mid-2000. Intel's new Internet-enabled Web appliances integrated with InfoSpace's leading Internet services will bring the power of the Internet to home devices by providing a fast and simple way to access new Internet services.

"We see a huge opportunity in the home Web appliance market to extend our vision of providing Internet services on any device," said Naveen Jain, chairman and CEO, InfoSpace. "Providing a services infrastructure to these devices means consumers will now have access to the most advanced communications, commerce and other services directly from their home devices eliminating the barriers that exist today for access to the Internet."

"When combined with InfoSpace's Internet services, we can offer advanced consumer Web appliance products that service providers can customize and brand as their own and then resell to their customers," said Claude Leglise, vice president of the Intel Architecture Business Group and general manager of the Home Products Group. "The combination of InfoSpace's integrated services and their technical flexibility have made it easy to implement their services on the new Web appliances."

About InfoSpace, Inc.

InfoSpace is a leading global Internet information infrastructure company. InfoSpace provides infrastructure services to consumers, merchants and wireless devices. InfoSpace's affiliate network consists of more than 2,100 Web sites. The Company's affiliates include AOL, Microsoft, Disney/InfoSeek's GO Network, NBC's Snap, Lycos, go2net Inc., DoubleClick, Dow Jones (The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition) and ABC LocalNet, among others. In addition, the Company provides services to a network of wireless Internet devices including PCs, cellular phones, pages, screen telephones, television set-top boxes, online kiosks, and personal digital assistants. These include relationships with Acer America, AT&T Wireless, Nokia, Nextel, Sprint, Mitsui, Lucent and @Home.

This release contains forward-looking statements relating to the development of the Company's products and services and future operating results, including statements regarding the Company's agreement with Intel, that are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. The words "believe," "expect," "intend," "anticipate," variations of such words, and similar expressions identify forward-looking statements, but their absence does not mean that the statement is not forward-looking. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Factors that could affect the Company's actual results include the progress and costs of the development of our products and services and the timing of market acceptance of those products and services. A more detailed description of certain factors that could affect actual results include, but are not limited to, those discussed in InfoSpace's Annual Report on Form 10-K, in the section entitled "Factors Affecting InfoSpace's Operating Results, Business Prospects and Market Price of Stock." Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this release. InfoSpace undertakes no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements to reflect new information, events or circumstances after the date of this release or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.

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